Marco Rubio Challenges GOP on Immigration, Obama Advisor Pushed for $1.8 Trillion Stimulus, Santorum Popular in California: P.M. Links

• Marco Rubio with some real talk on immigration. 

• White House economist Christy Romer wanted a $1.8 trillion stimulus. 
• Syrian forces plotted to kill foreign journalists.
• Santorum surges in California.
• Koran riot death toll up to seven.
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[WarrenT]

Eighth!

[db]

You lack confidence.

[AuH20]

Your overconfidence is your weakness!

[Binky]

That's quite insensitive. You know he has an awful lisp.

[John/Warty]

Ban the heretic!

[Suki]

Newsweek cheers.

[Inquisitor 2000?]

Is this the place where the libertarian collectivists show up to post their narcissistic links?

I have some fascinating, adolescent-focused links!

For instance!

Come on, click it! You know you want to!

[John/Warty]

OK, that is acceptable.
We likes us some boobs.

[goo]

Bi-curious? -Datebi*cO'Mis designed for bisexual and bi-curious individuals to meet in a friendly and comfortable environment. It hopes that all members can make new friends and establish romantic relationships.

[goo]

Bi-curious? -Datebi*cO'Mis designed for bisexual and bi-curious individuals to meet in a friendly and comfortable environment. It hopes that all members can make new friends and establish romantic relationships.

[Hugh Akston]

Santorum surges in California.

I'm guessing Castro and West Hollywood?

[24th & Vine]

That's the press leak.

[Sudden]

Te article puts his support at 25%, while Romney is at 31%. I'm beginning to think the MSM is trying to pump up Santorum so that they can convince GOP voters to make him the sacrificial lamb for Obama to slaughter.

[The Government]

the MSM is trying to pump up Santorum

Actually, that's our job.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Don't forget Long Beach. We have a sizable gay community down here, too. And our Gay Pride Festival is fabulous!

[Mike M.]

Former DNC Chairman Ed Rendell and New Jersey Democratic party strongman George Norcross are trying to buy up the Philadelphia print media, and Philly reporters are being actively censored by their bosses from reporting on this.

[John]

Rendell is just a fucking mobster.

[Mike M.]

Philly is already a corrupt one party town as it is, what do these machine hacks need to own the media for? Are they afraid that there's one person in the city who might not vote for Obama or something?

[John]

And it isn't like the Enquirer isn't liberal anyway.

[NEWS FLASH!]

Friggin' Libruls!

[NEWS FLASH!]

THOSE LIBRULS WON'T LET ME IN THEIR ASS WTF I THOUGHT THEY LOVED FAGS LIKE ME

[John]

Yes, I like cock.
So what?
Are we not men?

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Are we not men?

We are Devo!

[John/Warty]

Monkey men all, in business suits.

[Rev. Blue Moon]

Ed Rendell is seriously the worst. I remember watching his Penna. Reign of Terror from afar with sheer horror.

[Montani Semper Liberi]

Rendell buying the Inquirer won't make a bit of difference. Philly is a solid Democrat town, and the Inquirer is a solid Democrat paper. They will be preaching the choir. If Rendell wants to throw his money away on dying media, go right ahead.

[romulus augustus]

One member of the investor group is Ed Snider, who is a big funder of Objectivist causes and sits on board of Atlas Society. His influence on the Inky will be exactly zilch though I'd be happy if they just got rid of
mendacious cartoonist Tony Auth!

[Hugo Longbone]

And a shareholder in the Comcast conglomerate, which includes the Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers and Flyers.

[robc]

I must be last on the UPS route. Package for me left for delivery at 5:01 AM and still isnt here.

["Chip" DeLivery]

Perhaps DHS is handling your package.

[RoboCain]

Dude.

[Joe M]

The Paul/Romney Bromance

[Zeb]

Santorum should really change his name. Doesn't he know it's a dirty word?

[Grant M]

He should change it to analdischarge.

[Warty]

Something from Akron

[db]

Other than murderers, thieves, and serial killers?

[Warty]

And David Allan Coe...who is at most, um...all of those things.

[John]

My Dad had a girlfriend right after my mom died who was friends with both David Allen Coe and Billy Joe Shaver, who is a notorious nut who once threatened Waylon Jennings with a gun if he didn't make good on his promise to do an album of his songs and actually shot someone a couple years ago. Thank God, the relationship didn't last long. I was like WTF? I know grief does weird things to people. But good God.

[Warty]

Was she hot? With those friends, I can't see how she would be anything other than a used-up barskank, but you never know.

[John]

She was old. I never met her. She was fucked up. Was into extreme horse riding, basically horse torturing where you ride as long as possible in so many days. I think my mother's ghost ran her off. First time she visited my dad's house, she said the place felt cold and terrified her. She left after ten minutes and wouldn't go back into the house. I am not kidding. That was the end of it. All I could think was "way to go mom!!"

[Warty]

Cockblocking is never cool, not even from beyond the grave.

[John]

It is when she is blocking you from a loon who hangs out with David Allen Coe and Billy Joe Shaver.

[Warty]

Come on, what better way to go out than to be murdered by a jealous country music legend? You'd get so many songs written about you.

[John]

Never thought of it that way.

[John]

And Warty my dad has a terrible temper and is a brutally good shot. So the shooting might have gone the other way. I like the idea that my father killed a country legend in self defense in a dispute over a woman. Now that is a war story.

[Warty]

That would make a much better song, yes.

[Coeus]

Dude, Shaver shot a guy in the face outside of a bar I used to go to in college. The Waylon story is slightly overshadowed by that.

[John]

He is a nut. It is a wonder he didn't shoot someone before that. He is Phil Spector in cowboy boots.

[John]

What bar was that btw?

[Coeus]

I just looked it up, I was wrong. He got into a fight at Oakleys (the bar I used to frequent) and shot a guy at Papa Joe's.

[John]

Just curious. That is in Waco. Never really have been out there.

[Coeus]

Oakley's was the shit. Wednesday's they had cheap beer and the waitresses wore bikinis and chaps. The trial was ... interesting, to say the least:

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/b.....trial.html

[John]

I miss Texas. I hated the summers. But Central Texas, from San Antonio all the way up to Waco was fun. Lot of good bars and fun places.

[Joe M]

Oh God, don't start talking shit about East Texas again.

[WarrenT]

No, it's the coolest!

[Rev. Blue Moon]

And tires! And Jim Tressel!

[Montani Semper Liberi]

And LeBron, but he had the good sense to GTFO of Ohio.

[Warty]

Who?

[Rev. Blue Moon]

Hey, only Ohioans get to make fun of Ohio, Tiny Stuff. Otherwise i'll bring the whole damn Buckeye Brigade on your head.

[Citizen Nothing]

O-H...!

[Pro Libertate]

I went back to Ohio, once. But my city was gone.

[Rev. Blue Moon]

I knew you were a secret redneck christfag, you loathsome dittohead you.

[Pro Libertate]

Does he still use that song? Why is that? And why not the Canadian band?

[Rev. Blue Moon]

I-O!

[Shocked]

I - O

[Timon19]

The fucker's considering coming back in 2014.

And all heed the Good Reverend - don't mess with Akron, bitches.

[Pro Libertate]

Devo, too, right?

[Timon19]

Are we not men?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Santorum surges in California.

SURGE HAS BEEN USED TO DEATH. Someone break out the thesaurus.

[Warty]

How about "oozes"?

[John]

How about Santorum swells? Or gushes?

[Warty]

He's definitely a squirter, no doubt.

[NEWS FLASH!]

Fascinating!
You guys are the tops!

[NEWS FLASH!]

I STILL LIKE EATING COCK THO K THX

[Wartie]

Me too!
Embrace the gay!
Thx.

[Ted S.]

Beats being the bottoms.

[db]

efflux

[Mary Anne Webster]

Ejaculates.

[Montani Semper Liberi]

Santorum comes from Romney's behind... I mean comes from behind Romney... wait, that doesn't sound good either.

[John]

Santorum swells from Romney's behind.

[db]

Paul, Romney 'Warm Friends' but Face Political Friction; Santorum in Between Them in Polls

[db]

Nah.. poorly executed.

[Joe M]

I'd go with "gains". He's not even in first there.

[Bobarian]

I think you're missing the point...

Look for something in the thesaurus under 'engorges' or 'becomes tumescent'.

[BakedPenguin]

California: a Santorum geyser has sprung, drenching Golden state social conservatives in its warm effluvia.

[Barney]

Ooh, ooh! ERUPTS!

[DK]

Hasn't the name reached the multiple parts of speech pinnacle - a noun-verb-adjective sample:

Santorum santorums at the santorum debate.

[rts]

Cops support Bill C-30 (so-called Internet Spy Bill... a Canadian thing).

I am Jack's lack of surprise.

[Sharon Stone]

Think about the fucking children rts, think about them please. They are fucking dying and the only way to solve the problem is creating a certified police state.

Next time you hear about abuses of power, just think about the children .

[H man]

We had to infantilize the adults to save the children.

[Mike Ronomix]

White House economist Christy Romer wanted a $1.8 trillion stimulus.

To be fair, with the multiplier it would have been a $3.1 trillion stimulus.

[bc]

The citizens of Chelm were digging a foundation for a new synagogue when one of them suddenly paused in his labors, rested on his spade, and began stroking his beard. "What are we going to do," he asked of no one in particular, "with all this earth we're digging up?"

"I never though of that," said another. "What, indeed, are we going to do with it?"

"Ah, I know," the first went on, "we will make a pit, and into it we'll put all this earth we're digging up for our synagogue."

"But wait a minute," said the other, "that doesn't solve it at all! What will we do with the earth from the pit?"

"I'll tell you what," said the first, "we'll dig another pit, twice as big as the first, and into it we'll shovel all the earth we're digging now, and all the earth from the first pit!"

Then both went back to their digging

[Grant M]

Who's Jessie? She's a treat.

[Server Bots]

@ Grant M :

Nice, huh? She'll be commenting on the debate.

[Grant M]

shut up rectal

[P Brooks]

When Larry Summers is president of the World Bank, we'll find out what a stimulus really is.

[Failsafe]

Four copies of the Quran were burned before the incineration was halted

Fuck. Just burn forty copies of the Bible and be done with it.

[db]

I think the Bible's still a holy book to Muslims. If they really want to piss us off they should burn copies of Reality TV DVDs.

[John]

Pictures of Lady Di and Whitney Houston.

[Half of America]

Not, not ... JERSEY SHORE!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[The Other Kevin]

They should burn those remaining 4,000,000 copies of Dreams of my Father that are just gathering dust in a warehouse somewhere.

[Brett L]

Chill the champagne and polish the crystal goblets!
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am glad.

-Clive James

[Maya Angelou]

Damn. Wish I'd penned that.

[A Serious Man]

Kate Upton's productive year contiunes as seen in this photo of her on the set of the forthcoming Three Stooges movie.

http://www.ramascreen.com/wp-c.....-Upton.jpg

[Grant M]

I'll be in my bunk, you knucklehead

[Warty]

Look at those perfect floppies. I may have to see this movie.

[John]

Damn.

[Ska]

Is she wearing a fucking habit too?

[Coeus]

I love me some nuns with great tits. As anyone with access to my computer could tell you.

[Urkobold?]

NUN SHALL PASS!

[Warty]

Duh.

[Warty]

I had the same thought as the Urkobold. Wait, am I the Urkobold?

[Urkobold?]

THE SPIRIT OF THE URKOBOLD LIVES IN ALL MEN.

[NEWS FLASH!]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[NEWS FLASH!]

HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS

[STEVE SMITH]

I TOO WANT TO BE IN ALL MEN!

[John]

Call me.

[John]

Spoof all you want. I don't care. Everyone here knows it is you. It is only when you cross the line into slander that they ban you.

[Wartie]

Everyone here knows it is you

Define "you."

Thx, darlin'.

[NEWS FLASH!]

HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS

[Stalin]

It is only when you cross the line into slander that they ban you.

Comrade! You are one of us! Salut!

[Mike M.]

I almost feel ashamed of myself at the fact that she's only 19. Almost.

[db]

I had no idea all three Stooges suffered from ED.

[A Serious Man]

Never heard of any of those three actors, but give them credit for their professionalism if they can refrain from popping a boner during these scenes.

[Urkobold?]

NUN SHALL PASS!

THE URKOBOLD HAS SOME EXPERIENCE PRODUCING MOVIES. THEY HAVE PEOPLE WHO DEPLETE THE MALE JUST TO AVOID UNSCRIPTED ERECTIONS. PAYS WELL.

[John]

I FEEL YOUR SPHINCTER!

[John]

Now we are going to spoof? Pretty desperate for attention aren't we? And still pretty angry about being banned I see.

[Warty]

You pissed her off good, dude. Go through with that subpoena. If you manage to send her a threatening lawyer letter, we should see some amazing antics.

[John]

I know Warty. It is bizarre. Funny I set it off so much.

[The Collective]

Go through with that subpoena

Hahahahahaha!

Sorry. Yous guys is somethin else!

[John]

I noticed you stopped with the slander. That is all that matters to me. The rest of what you do is self evident and ridiculous. Like your blog, no one reads it and no one cares.

[The Collective]

Pretty desperate for attention aren't we?

Hahahahaha! Oh man, the irony. It burns!

[Warty]

Those are unforgiving shorts for getting a boner in, too. There's no way to accomplish the discreet tuck.

[Ska]

Nyuk nyuk nyiiiiiice.

[Ska]

Nyuk nyuk nyiiiiiiice.

(No this isn't spam, it's just a worthless comment)

[Coeus]

Please keep preaching this line:

When a woman consents to sex, she is not also consenting to pregnancy.

http://jezebel.com/5887293/sma.....ts-for-men

Now say it with me feminists: When a man consents to sex, he is not consenting having and supporting a child.

......

What, nobody's gonna say it with me?

[RoboCain]

Not at Jezebel.

[Jezebel]

There is no such thing as anti-male bigotry.

[WarrenT]

Bitch!

[JW]

Their dissonance against objective reality is deafening.

[RoboCain]

Objective reality is was created by the patriarchy to oppress women.

[Warty]

I'm participating in a self-defense class this semester. The day before class started, the instructor sends out an email with information on the class. A paragraph explained that the class was not a martial arts class, so it was not recommended for men. Are men born with inherently better self-defense skills? I didn't think so. Guys get mugged too. And what about the fact that 10% of rape victims are men?

gender

Are men born with inherently better self-defense skills?

No, I can't think of any reason why dudes might be better at fighting. Can you guys?

[Episiarch]

JW's girlish physique would belie your assertion, you misogynistic asshole. He punches like a wet noodle.

[Hugh Akston]

Some girls might like that.

[Episiarch]

"You don't wanna beat me or screw me?!? What kind of marriage is this?"

[JW]

Hey, it was in the vows!

[Fat Indian]

I'm totally taking that class.

[nicole]

I will!

[Coeus]

Good on ya, but if you're a feminist, I have severely misjudged you.

[RoboCain]

"determining what medical care should be available to women"

"Men who are not medical professionals have no business dictating what women must do with their bodies"

Not having the government pay for something isn't the same as making it unavailable or deciding who can buy it for themselves.

[#]

I wonder what these people would say that the 2nd amendment means they have to pay for everyone else to have a firearm.

[RoboCain]

Or pay for everyone's newspapers, phones, and internet. Otherwise how is it "free speech"?

[Fatty Bolger]

Men who are not medical professionals have no business dictating what women must do with their bodies

So she's in favor of legalizing prostitution?

[Devon Maeeril]

Dude knows he is like totally rocking. Wow.

http://www.Getting-Anon.tk

[Coeus]

You've gotta read the comments on this one:

http://jezebel.com/5887175/whe.....ave-it-bad

A sample:

If someone gave me the choice between living for 70 years with everything going my way, and living for 74 years with hurdles, I'd probably pick the seventy. But that choice is out of my hands now. My dad's X sperm beat out his Ys.

Hehe.

[#]

I love how they too blame every problem they have in life on the fact that they are women, as if being a man means everything is perfect in yoru life.

[Warty]

SamBarge @T_Beermonster
Women are better engineered than men, it's true, so we live longer. However, our life is impeded regularly by misogyny and oppression so that, although women's lives are longer, they are more difficult. Now, obviously my "headline fix" was done tongue in cheek and without the thorough investigation of life expectancy and happiness ratios that, apparently, you require. I am eternally sorry for causing you any pain.

Not sure if serious...

[RoboCain]

"Higher expectancy doesn't mean better life, it means more years of crap."

[Hugh Akston]

I don't really buy that men have it easier. I mean, here I am a white heterosexual male, and I'm unemployed. Meanwhile most of the commenters at Jezebel have two full-time careers; in addition to their day jobs they are also professional victims.

[RoboCain]

And it pays pretty well.

[RoboCain]

"Part of the problem with having less obvious heart attack symptoms is that it causes women to not take the symptoms they do experience seriously. So often women don't go to the hospital, when they might if they had chest pains."

And somehow, men are at fault for that.

[Warty]

You patriarchically convinced them they couldn't have heart attacks, you monster.

[nicole]

Oh holy goddesses of Jezebel, please, for reals? It takes until the FIFTEENTH paragraph to make it even remotely clear (and it's still only just barely clear) that she's just bitching about not having her amnio covered by insurance?not that Rick Santorum wants to ban amnios (which seemed just a tad bit surprising).

And as far as I'm concerned, if her and her husband had two kids and a mortgage and couldn't afford all of the prenatal testing and care and everything else, they shouldn't have gotten pregnant. Because you cannot actually insure against something that is a fucking choice you make and not an unpredictable disease.

[Episiarch]

One of the worst features of the internet is that it brought together people who thought they were alone in their issues/problems/fetishes, and found they weren't, and got more obnoxious than could have even been imagined because they now felt there was someone just as obnoxious to talk to about it. You know, like furries, LARPers, and people who deny all responsibility for their own actions.

[nicole]

You forgot VOMs (victims of microaggression)

[Episiarch]

Stop othering me!!!

[nicole]

Epi, we all know you're a hetero cismale. As a lady, I am far too powerless to other you.

[Episiarch]

I can't tell if not knowing what a cismale is makes me one by default. I'm going to assume yes, since by assuming I make an ass out of u and ming. Wait, that didn't work right. What does Emperor Ming have to do with this? I shouldn't drink so much cough syrup at work.

[Warty]

You were not brought upon this world to get it!

[Pro Libertate]

Lo Pan is the greatest villain, ever.

[nicole]

Your cisnormativity, Epi, it burns.

[BakedPenguin]

Ming was merciless, like every other cis-gendered male, including Flash.

[Pro Libertate]

Flash! A-ah!

[Bobarian]

He saved every one of us!

[Flash]

Me A-ah!

http://www.hark.com/clips/grsc.....e-universe

[Auric Demonocles]

I had to google the term a couple of days ago. Apparently the trannies decided they needed to invent a term that means "male".

[Pro Libertate]

What was wrong with "male?"

[Episiarch]

You are everything that's wrong with males, ProL. And mail as well.

[Pro Libertate]

That explains the evil eye I get from postal workers.

[RoboCain]

As a member of the multimeter community I find that indignity derogatory and othering.

[Warty]

Excellent trollbait. Have you set the trolltrap?

[Episiarch]

What do you think?

[Brett L]

People who hat governments...

[Pro Libertate]

This is correct. So, once, a fucked up guy who wanted to be a Nazi might decide, "Hey, I'm a lonely guy, thinking I'm a Nazi. And I don't know any other Nazis, so maybe I should go get help." Now, of course, the Internet reinforces the crazy and unifies it.

[nicole]

From the comments:
Next thing you know they'll be banning pregnancy tests so that you can't know until it's too late for an abortion that you're having a baby.

Yes, I'm sure that's the very next thing. Because nobody uses pregnancy tests other than people who don't want to get pregnant. Women buy those shits in bulk when they are "trying"! Even Santorum should love them, haha.

[prospective Vader]

This appears to be true. And it only reinforces the idea that baby-seeking women are all about sexytimes until the test changes the right color, then it's all "no more sex; time to think about painting the nursery!"

[RoboCain]

And of course they had to include a baby picture, just in case all the other high drama and appeals to emotion failed.

[JW]

Oh holy goddesses of Jezebel, please, for reals?

Hysterical, shrill harpies just doesn't seem to cut it any more.

Discuss.

[IceTrey]

Romer isn't thinking big enough. Let's do 10 trillion! Let's burn this muthafucker to the ground!

[Pro Libertate]

Ten trillion? That's chickenfeed. Try infinity!

[Paul Krugman]

Let's burn this muthafucker to the ground!

Excellent idea. And I mean that literally.

[Grant M]

Trollhunter is a great movie.
However I thought it was about W.I.

[Almanian]

Of course santorum's popular in Cali. Esp in San Fran, no doubt. Duh.

[dunphy]

PJ ORourke has a great piece on korean riot stylings in holidays in hell iirc

[wingnutx]

You recall correctly.

That entire book is great.